Met. PHILIP Responds to the Jerusalem Patriarchate Transfer
If I live to be 100 years old I will never understand our wonderful pastoral Hierarchs in the Orthodox Church here in the United States. So we have excommunicat...
Author: Fr. Peter
St. John Chrysostom on Holy Communion
“Let us not, I beg you, slay ourselves by our irreverence, but with awe and purity draw near to it; and when you see it set before you, say to yourself: ‘Becaus...
Where have I been?
Well this was a weekend to forget for sure. If you follow me on twitter you know that I was in hospital Sunday and Monday. I was taken by Ambulance, from the ch...
Church says relic of saint stolen
LOWELL – When the Rev. Demetri Costarakis returned to church last Monday afternoon, he was immediately drawn to the front of the chapel. Something was dif...
Reading for the Day
Romans 14:17-19 The kingdom of God does not mean eating or drinking this or that, it means righteousness and peace and joy brought by the Holy Spirit. If you se...
Hospital
Well if you follow me on twitter, plurk, or Facebook you know that I spent a few hours in hospital yesterday. I had a little heart thing going on and I don̵...
Shepherd of Souls #24
Episode #24 is now online and in the feed. PODCAST
Lambeth 2008
I assume, and maybe I should not, that most of my readers are of the Eastern Orthodox variety and therefore have no clue what Lambeth is. Well Lambeth is the on...
An Interview with the Most Revd. Metroplitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia
This interview was conducted at the end of Lambeth Conference in England. This is the first time I have read the words of an Orthodox Bishop so clear on our nee...
When We Fast
I have just finished an essay called When We Fast… In this little essay I take up the topic of not ow to fast but why we fast. I have saved it as a pdf ra...